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Wouldn’t It Be Nice

March 12, 2021

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Nurse Shark ~ Photo by Patrice

Wouldn’t it be nice
If the world laughed
No one cried and in the sea
No fish, no lives
No one
No one died.

Wouldn’t it be nice
If the world turned
Looking at itself
Making no excuses, no lies
Just told the truth
With open-hearted sighs.

Wouldn’t it be nice
If the world alone
Gave all the happiness
Needed to survive
Holding everyone in a grasp
So tender, so alive.

Wouldn’t it be nice, Wouldn’t it be nice
~ Patrice

*Please help STOP Shark Finning

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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My Beating Heart

March 10, 2021

Last used March 10/21

My heart does pump and thump
the core of me
my beating heart.

Onward she goes with no breath taken
alive making no mistakes
my beating heart.

Commanding all with every beat
giving living life while being discreet
my beating heart.

She works in sync without a stop
oh how I need you
my dear beating heart.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

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Thinking About, Remembering When

March 1, 2021

Thinking about
remembering when
life was easy
and
very different

Was then just a step
I tread upon
to reach the sky
and
beyond?

Did I obtained
my desires
or
should I sit back,
sit down
and
begin again?
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

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Courting Life, Fleeing Death

February 24, 2021

Courting Life, Fleeing Death ~ Illustration by Patrice

Courting life, fleeing death
Time passes
Taking no regard for
The rest.

Holding close, pushing aside
All things
I love, despise.

In tomorrow
The world may change
Leaving everything
Just the same.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

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Art Is

February 16, 2021

 ~ Photo by Patrice

Art is a thing of

Beauty

Sweetness

Strength

Anger

Kindness

Remorse

Compassion

Honesty

and

Bliss.

Not just a Man’s name.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

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Will I Show You Who I Am

February 12, 2021

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Farmhouse Face and Lilacs ~ Photo by Patrice

Will I show you who I am
Will I reveal the face
I know I’ve been?

Will the lines of tomorrow
Be etched
Across my taunt skin?

Will the ones
That happened yesterday
Be still there
In a full or forced grin?

I don’t know the answer
Cause you see
I don’t know who I’ve been.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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Are Our Thoughts Real

January 29, 2021

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Monkey Head Rock in CostaRica ~ Photo by Patrice

Are our thoughts real
Or dreams we lived
In bed at night
Moving thru
An existence surreal
Living as life.

Are the things we see
Real or imagery
Will they move in life
Or just be known
Seen
In the realm of night.
~ Patrice  

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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The Worst Is Over

January 21, 2021

The Worst Is Over ~ Photo by Patrice

The worst is over
The healing begins to mend
Silently
We hold one another
We know we are together
Once again.

No one will break us apart
No, never again
Will we be so bitter, angry
With one another
For the healing, the mending
Now begins.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

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I See Your Life

January 19, 2021

I See Your Life ~ Photo by Patrice

I see your life in front of me
I see when you fail
And
When you succeed.

Yours is not a life of in-between
You go for all
You leave nothing undone
Nothing not tried.

Yes
That’s the way
The way it all seems.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021

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Riley Passed Away Yesterday

January 18, 2021

 Riley Passed Away Yesterday ~ Photo by Patrice

Riley passed away
yesterday
his beating heart stopped
his breath ceased to be
only memories
memories that is all we have
you see.

A gentle, kind, wondrous guy
knowing, knowledgeable
a smile on his face
devoted beyond belief
this was Riley
who now has been.

He passed away, passed away
yesterday
rest in peace sweet Riley
you were loved and loved
unconditionally.
~ Patrice  

~ My deepest condolences to his family and all that loved him ~ 

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2021